Author Archives: jb

>Sure beats Weight Watchers..

Posted on 9 February, 2009 by jb

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>Rigor mortis in turdis…

Posted on 7 February, 2009 by jb

> Or: Gravity ate my hard drive. It wasn’t from a great height and I don’t think it even hit the ground, but the rapid deceleration a) buggered the drive spindleb) severely stuffed the surface of the diskc) probably shagged … Continue reading →

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>Cool stuff

Posted on 4 February, 2009 by jb

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>There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies…..

Posted on 3 February, 2009 by jb

> … and statistics.. These people must be so tragically thick. This is an advertisement in the Economist – educated, influential and affluent readership (apart from me that is – I just look at the pictures) – and definitely not … Continue reading →

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>The day the music died…

Posted on 2 February, 2009 by jb

> Bit of a problem. My 250GB external drive fell off the desk the other day. In fact, EVERYTHING fell off the desk – Mac mini, USB and Firewire hub and 2 other drives. I managed to grab the monitor… … Continue reading →

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True stories – Ron Wood

Posted on 2 February, 2009 by jb

> Ron Wood’s in his dressing room with whichever band it was at the time – Jeff Beck Group, Faces, Stones (where he’s still “The new boy”..). Manager pops his head around the corner and says “Oi, Ronnie. The police … Continue reading →

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>Not that I understand it…

Posted on 1 February, 2009 by jb

>   1 Legendre’s constant 2 “An infinite number of mathematicians…” 3 A Unicode character as a HTML entity 4 Modular arithmetic 5 The Golden Mean reworked a little 6 Three Factorial (3*2*1) 7 6.99999.. Though a different number than … Continue reading →

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>Um, I don’t get it….

Posted on 31 January, 2009 by jb

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>You’d pull a face too…….

Posted on 26 January, 2009 by jb

> . .if someone had just cut off your bollocks…. Which is what you do to a bullock to turn it into an ox. Castrate it. The Year of the Ox in the Chinese calendar kicks off today and – … Continue reading →

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>True stories – Customer Support

Posted on 25 January, 2009 by jb

> “Ridge Hall computer assistant; may I help you?” “Yes, well, I’m having trouble with WordPerfect.” “What sort of trouble?” “Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away.” “Went away?” “They disappeared”. “hmmm. … Continue reading →

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